📅 - Florida teenager Blake Ranking, 18, pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter this week after a confession he posted on his blog was discovered by prosecutors.
Ranking confessed on his blog blurty.com three days after the October 2004 crash that killed his friend and left another seriously injured.
Ranking was sitting in the back seat of a car when he pulled the steering wheel as a joke, causing the vehicle to steer off the road. His blood alcohol level was reportedly twice the legal limit. The driver was sober.
"It was me who caused it. I turned the wheel. I turned the wheel that sent us off the road, into the concrete drain..." Ranking wrote in the blog post, which was later deleted. He retracted his statements in another blog entry.
Ranking will be sentenced on December 28. Assistant State Attorney Julie Greenberg has recommended five years in prison and 10 years of probation and a permanent license suspension.
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